St. Bonaventure University’s Dr. Kimberly Young, a licensed psychologist and internationally known expert on Internet addiction for 20 years, was featured this week in along-form news story on screen addiction on the Australian version of “60 Minutes.”
The story focused on how screen addiction, in the form of tablets and smartphones, is destroying the lives of some adults and now affecting children as young as 2 years old.
“60 Minutes” correspondent Michael Usher was on campus in June to interview Young, who directs the master’s degree program in strategic leadership at St. Bonaventure.
tarted studying Internet addiction in 1995 and founded the Center for Internet Addiction. She has published numerous articles and books including “Caught in the Net,” the first book to identify Internet addiction and now available in nine languages, “Tangled in the Web,” “Breaking Free of the Web,” and “Internet Addiction: A Handbook and Guide for Evaluation and Treatment.”
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time, CNN, CBS News, Fox News, “Good Morning America,” and ABC’s “World News Tonight.”
Young has received the Psychology in the Media Award from the Pennsylvania Psychological Association and the Alumni Ambassador Award for Outstanding Achievement from Indiana University at Pennsylvania. She serves on the advisory board for The Internet Group in Toronto and the Japanese Ministry for the prevention and treatment of Internet Addiction.